LEADER 04806nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910788261303321 005 20211014004830.0 010 $a1-283-89875-6 010 $a0-8122-0603-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206036 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046173 035 $a(OCoLC)822017938 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642747 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000597369 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11941367 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000597369 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10577158 035 $a(PQKB)11541363 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17547 035 $a(DE-B1597)449559 035 $a(OCoLC)979954231 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206036 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441995 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642747 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421125 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441995 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046173 100 $a20111205d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnglish letters and Indian literacies$b[electronic resource] $ereading, writing, and New England missionary schools, 1750-1830 /$fHilary E. Wyss 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 0 $aHaney Foundation Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4413-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction. Technologies of Literacy --$tChapter 1. Narratives and Counternarratives: Producing Readerly Indians in Eighteenth- Century New England --$tChapter 2. The Writerly Worlds of Joseph Johnson --$tChapter 3. Brainerd's Missionary Legacy: Death and the Writing of Cherokee Salvation --$tChapter 4. The Foreign Mission School and the Writerly Indian --$tAfter Words: Native Literacy and Autonomy --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAs rigid and unforgiving as the boarding schools established for the education of Native Americans could be, the intellectuals who engaged with these schools-including Mohegans Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, and Montauketts David and Jacob Fowler in the eighteenth century, and Cherokees Catharine and David Brown in the nineteenth-became passionate advocates for Native community as a political and cultural force. From handwriting exercises to Cherokee Syllabary texts, Native students negotiated a variety of pedagogical practices and technologies, using their hard-won literacy skills for their own purposes. By examining the materials of literacy-primers, spellers, ink, paper, and instructional manuals-as well as the products of literacy-letters, journals, confessions, reports, and translations-English Letters and Indian Literacies explores the ways boarding schools were, for better or worse, a radical experiment in cross-cultural communication. Focusing on schools established by New England missionaries, first in southern New England and later among the Cherokees, Hilary E. Wyss explores both the ways this missionary culture attempted to shape and define Native literacy and the Native response to their efforts. She examines the tropes of "readerly" Indians-passive and grateful recipients of an English cultural model-and "writerly" Indians-those fluent in the colonial culture but also committed to Native community as a political and cultural concern-to develop a theory of literacy and literate practice that complicates and enriches the study of Native self-expression. Wyss's literary readings of archival sources, published works, and correspondence incorporate methods from gender studies, the history of the book, indigenous intellectual history, and transatlantic American studies. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aIndians of North America$xEducation$zNew England 606 $aIndians of North America$zNew England$xIntellectual life 606 $aIndians of North America$xMissions$zNew England 606 $aWritten communication$zNew England$xHistory 606 $aLiteracy$zNew England$xHistory 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aNative American Studies. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xEducation 615 0$aIndians of North America$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xMissions 615 0$aWritten communication$xHistory. 615 0$aLiteracy$xHistory. 676 $a371.829/97 700 $aWyss$b Hilary E$01579089 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788261303321 996 $aEnglish letters and Indian literacies$93858925 997 $aUNINA